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$43.76
+0.57%

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Technology on both sides of the border carries XEQT within a whisker of its 52-week high.

XEQT gained 0.57% on Thursday, closing at $43.76, just 0.2% below its 52-week high of $43.85. The U.S. sleeve was the session's dominant force, contributing +0.43 percentage points to the fund's advance, driven by a technology sector that rose 1.50% on Nvidia's jump and broader optimism around the U.S.-China summit in Beijing. Canada added a further +0.16 pp, while international developed markets acted as a modest drag and emerging markets contributed fractionally. The net result was a fund that finished the day balanced on the edge of a new annual high.

How large is today's move?

Typical day · Today's +0.57% move is 0.9× the 20-day average move.

This scale measures size, not what to do. Larger moves are a normal part of holding a global all-equity fund.

The Regions

  • Canada

    25.21% of XEQT

    • XIC.TO
    +0.64% +0.16 pts to XEQT

    Financials and industrials did the heavy lifting for the Canadian sleeve, which gained 0.64%. Financials rose 1.64% and industrials advanced 1.86%, together accounting for the bulk of the sleeve's move. The notable counterweight was materials, which fell 1.76%, consistent with gold pulling back 1.09% on the session.

    Canada market region icon

  • United States

    44.98% of XEQT

    • XTOT.TO
    • ITOT
    +0.95% +0.43 pts to XEQT

    Technology was the unambiguous engine, rising 1.50% and contributing more than half a percentage point within the sleeve alone. Financials and industrials each added modestly, while health care and consumer discretionary were essentially flat. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq reached new record highs on the session, with Nvidia's advance and constructive signals from U.S.-China talks providing the backdrop.

    United States market region icon

  • Intl Developed

    24.54% of XEQT

    • XEF.TO
    -0.14% -0.03 pts from XEQT

    XEF declined 0.14%, subtracting 0.03 pp from XEQT. Japan fell 1.11% and the UK slipped 0.58%, more than offsetting gains in Australia and the Netherlands. European markets were supported by strong earnings, but the sleeve's Asia-Pacific weight proved the drag among the markets tracked here.

    Intl Developed market region icon

  • Emerging Mrkts

    4.98% of XEQT

    • XEC.TO
    +0.25% +0.01 pts to XEQT

    XEC added 0.25%, a modest positive despite a sharp 2.83% decline in Chinese equities among the markets tracked. South Korea rose 1.00%, Taiwan gained 0.65%, and India advanced 0.79%, collectively absorbing the China-related weakness. Warm rhetoric from the Trump-Xi summit appeared to underpin sentiment across parts of the sleeve, though the net contribution to XEQT was just +0.01 pp.

    Emerging Markets market region icon

Colored bars represent biggest contributors to XEQT's move today (threshold = ±0.1 percentage points). Returns are daily ETF price moves for tracked regional or sector categories and may differ slightly from raw index movements.

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The Hold Line

XEQT's YTD return stands at +8.96% and the fund sits 27.5% above its 52-week low, context that gives Thursday's proximity to a new annual high its proper weight. The session illustrated how a concentrated technology advance in the U.S. sleeve can carry the whole fund even when three other sleeves contribute little or pull in the opposite direction. For a long-term holder, the composition of today's gain is more instructive than its size: a single sector in a single sleeve drove nearly three-quarters of XEQT's move, a reminder that geographic breadth does not always mean contribution breadth on any given day.

Signals

  • 01

    Technology concentration in U.S. sleeve

    U.S. technology rose 1.50% and contributed +0.526 pp within the U.S. sleeve alone, accounting for roughly three-quarters of that sleeve's total return and nearly half of XEQT's entire daily gain. For an XEQT holder, this means the fund's short-term performance remains closely tied to the fortunes of a single sector within its largest sleeve, even as the other three sleeves combined added less than 0.14 pp.

  • 02

    Gold retreat splits Canadian sectors

    Gold fell 1.09%, and Canadian materials declined 1.76%, the worst-performing sector tracked in the Canadian sleeve and the only one in negative territory. That divergence, financials and industrials rising sharply while materials fell, compressed what could have been a stronger Canadian contribution and is worth watching if gold continues to retrace from recent elevated levels.

  • 03

    XEQT within 0.2% of 52-week high

    At $43.76, XEQT closed just $0.09 below its 52-week high of $43.85, a level it last touched while U.S. markets were also pressing records. The VIX, a measure of expected near-term swings in U.S. equities, fell 3.41% to 17.26, suggesting the risk environment remains broadly constructive for equity prices at this threshold.

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